碎片中的整体——翁达杰《身着狮皮》中多伦多的空间建构

Pieces as a Whole——The Space Construction of Toronto in Michael Ondaatje’s The Skin of a Lion

《身着狮皮》是加拿大作家迈克尔·翁达杰第一部以加拿大为背景的小说。该小说突破以时间为主线的传统叙事方式,以碎片式的叙述策略构建起多维立体的城市空间。随着多伦多城市空间的建构,语言、民族与文化的界线也逐渐模糊甚至被打破。从漂泊无根的移民到多伦多这座城市的建造者,边缘化的移民在多伦多绘制了一幅自己参与的文化地图,同时在地图中也找到了属于自己的“位置”。因此,以亨利·列斐伏尔的空间批评理论为基础,通过分析小说中多伦多城市物质空间、精神空间和社会空间的建构,展现加拿大作为一个多民族、多语言国家的形成过程,最终揭示了加拿大多元文化的形成。

The Skin of a Lion is the first Canadian-based novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje.The novel breaks through the traditional narrative method with time as the main line,and uses fragmented narrative strategies to construct a multidimensional and threedimensional urban space.With the construction of Toronto’s urban space,the boundaries of language,nation and culture have gradually blurred or even been broken.From wandering unrooted immigrants to the builders of the city of Toronto,marginalized immigrants have drawn a cultural map of their participation in Toronto,and have found their own"position"on the map.Therefore,based on Henri Lefebvre’s space criticism theory,this article analyzes the construction of Toronto’s urban material space,spiritual space,and social space in the novel,showing that marginal immigrants are trying to understand and accept their hybridity identities,and find a coexisting for multi-ethnic country,different classes,different nationalities,and different cultures in Canada.